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Seoul Moves to Ban Uber, Plans Own App — UPDATE: Uber Monday evening called Seoul city government's earlier statement a sign that it lags behind in adopting what it called an innovation in transportation. “Comments like these show Seoul is in danger of remaining trapped in the past …
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| Jason D. O'Grady / ZDNet: |
Forensic scientist identifies suspicious ‘back doors’ running on every iOS device — Summary: During his talk at HOPE/X Jonathan Zdziarski details several undocumented services (with names like “lockdownd,” “pcapd,” “mobile.file_relay,” and “house_arrest") that run in the background on over 600 million iOS devices.| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Urban Compass raises $40M at $360M valuation after increasing revenues 10x over past year — Urban Compass Raises Money at $360 Million Valuation — Urban Compass Inc., the New York marketplace for renting and buying apartments, will expand to more U.S. cities after raising $40 million from investors.
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Microsoft consolidates its IT pro tradeshows into one — Summary: Microsoft is consolidating a number of its standalone IT pro-focused tradeshows into a single unified event, slated to kick off in May 2015 in Chicago. — Microsoft is consolidating its TechEd, Microsoft Management Summit …
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NBA star Carmelo Anthony launches venture capital firm called M7 Tech Partners — Knicks Star Carmelo Anthony Launches Venture Firm — After scoring a new contract worth over $122 million with the N.Y. Knicks, NBA star Carmelo Anthony is looking to take a different kind of shot — starting a venture capital firm.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
BlackBerry Names New COO, Marty Beard, ex-CEO Of Enterprise Cloud Startup LiveOps — On the heels of news that Apple would be significantly ramping up its mobile enterprise push in a partnership with IBM, BlackBerry is also looking to step up its game. Today, the company announced that it is appointing a new COO, Marty Beard.
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| Janko Roettgers / Gigaom: |
The story of WebP: How Google wants to speed up the web, one image at a time — Tired of slow web pages? So is Google, and the company thinks it has the key to speed up the web: smaller image files. Google's WebP image format aims to replace existing image file formats like JPEG with a smaller file size … | Author Earnings: |
Study: 31% of ebooks sold on Amazon are self-published; DRM harms sales at all price levels — July 2014 Author Earnings Report — It has been nearly half a year since we first pulled data for nearly every ranked ebook on Amazon.com's thousands of category bestseller lists.| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Blockchain Android app updated with new features simplying transactions, map view of merchants — Blockchain Releases New Android Wallet App To Put Bitcoin Into Everyone's Hands — Popular bitcoin wallet provider Blockchain.info is releasing a major new version of its Android app …
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Mobileye, Israeli maker of driving assist systems, starts road show for $500M NYSE IPO — Israel's Mobileye starts road show for $500 million NYSE IPO — (Reuters) - Mobileye N.V., which makes software and cameras that help cars avoid accidents, said on Monday it has launched a road show …
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| Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal: |
Verizon FiOS, facing slowing growth, plans symmetrical upload speeds at no additional charge — Verizon FiOS Enhances Bandwidth for Uploads — Company Is Seeking to Race Ahead of Cable Industry in Its Internet Speeds — Verizon Communications Inc. 's FiOS TV and broadband service …
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NEA Backs BetterDoctor's Quest To Develop Tools To Find A Better Doctor — For Ari Tulla, the chief executive officer in NEA's newest portfolio company, BetterDoctor, the decision to launch a company was a matter of more than just money. — Almost ten years ago, Tulla's wife began treatment for a serious illness.
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